Designing Kinetics For Architectural Facades

Author : Jules Moloney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136709037
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades written by Jules Moloney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades. Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from kinetic art of the 1960’s. From this background the basic principles of kinetics are defined and are used to generate experimental computer animations. By classifying the animations, a theory of kinetic form called ‘state change’ is developed. This design research provides a unique and timely resource for those interested in the capacity of kinetics to enliven the public face of architecture. Extra material including animations can be seen at www.kineticarch.net/statechange

Author : Charles Linn
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864704950
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinetic Architecture written by Charles Linn and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shift in the architecture industry’s focus in the last 20 years toward ecological concerns, long-term value, and user comfort has coincided with significant new developments in digital controls, actuators, shading typologies, building physics simulation capability, and material performance. This collision has afforded architects an expanded set of opportunities to create architecture that can respond directly to environmental conditions, resulting in innovative façade designs that quickly become landmarks for their cities. Authors Russell Fortmeyer and Charles Linn trace the historical development of active façades in modern architecture, and reveal how contemporary architects and consultants design and test these systems.

Author : Kurt Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Architectural Facades written by Kurt Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabriela Celani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662473860
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer-Aided Architectural Design: The Next City – New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment written by Gabriela Celani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2015, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2015. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling, analyzing and simulating the city; sustainability and performance of the built space; automated and parametric design; building information modelling (BIM); fabrication and materiality; shape studies.

Author : Carolina Stevenson
Publisher : Birkhauser
ISBN 13 : 9783034608077
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinetic Architecture written by Carolina Stevenson and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since architecture is generally conceived and built as stationary and sturdy, kinetic architecture exerts an special fascination. It can be described as the outcome of integrating movement into the built environment. The form, size, position or state of a building alter in response to the changing requirements of its function, users or environment. Kinetic architecture comprises completely movable structures, movable components such as roofs or interior walls and alterations to a façade, for instance by integrating PCMs (phase-change materials). This book presents kinetic architecture as the answer to functional requirements: must the entire building be mobile, must it adapt to changing conditions or must it allow for quick assembly? It documents the various technical options for realizing kinetic structures. The range of applications stretches from a residential building with a completely kinetic facade to sliding apartment walls to folding or hydraulically retractable stadium roofs.

Author : Ingrid Paoletti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031448936
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Executive Design of the Façade Systems written by Ingrid Paoletti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the typological and technological constitution of the principal advanced façade systems in the contemporary design and experimental scenario, proposing itself as a knowledge and operational tool currently lacking in the technical literature of the sector at an international level. It considers the field of advanced façade systems in a scientific way, constituting a support for the study and the executive design. The book investigates in detail, in an analytical form, the constitution of the components on a typological and geometrical, functional and constructive level, on the basis of the documents and knowledges acquired from the essential contemporary production and construction references. At the same time, the book is configured in a handbook form as a reference for understanding and application with respect to traditional and complex façade systems. For each main type of façade, the book provides explanations and scientific information for investigating and designing the advanced façades according to the characteristics of the mullions and transoms façade system (stick system), of the structural sealant glazing façade system, of the unit façade system, of the suspended façade system and of the double-skin façade system.

Author : Sandra G.L. Persiani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811561788
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design of Autoreaction written by Sandra G.L. Persiani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application and integration of interdisciplinary principles from the fields of kinetic design, mechanics, energy and materials engineering in the fields of architecture and engineering design. It explores the potential integration of autoreactive solutions, unpowered kinetic systems triggered by changes in the surrounding latent energy conditions, within man-made artefacts with added functionality and efficiency. Related interdisciplinary parameters are explored discussing morphology, mechanics, energy and materials in detail. Each chapter examines the implications of autoreactivity in one specific field, providing a general overview and listing relevant motion design parameters and identifying for the reader those aspects that have a high potential to open up for new design directions. The book guides readers through a highly multidisciplinary field of design, offering an extraordinary resource of knowledge for professional architects, engineers and designers, as well as for university teachers, researchers and students. Interdisciplinary research is presented throughout the book as a powerful resource that can serve architecture and design, and a learning method to rethink innovative, optimal and sustainable solutions.

Author : Shahryar Habibi
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 012822164X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Automation and Digital Technologies written by Shahryar Habibi and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building automation systems and digital technologies are highly relevant for the environmental and energy performance of buildings. However, a clear gap remains between architectural engineering and the use of such technologies. Building Automation and Digital Technologies shows how to assimilate automation and digital technologies into making buildings smarter and more environmentally sustainable. This book shows why architects need smart and digital systems in building design and construction and promotes innovative technological tools for improving sustainability. It focuses on the development of automated environmental conditions and how new technology informs architectural engineering. The book also provides new evidence on the impact of building automation systems and digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and information and communication technology for developing a performance-based approach to the environmental sustainability of buildings, and provides a key reference for architects on how digital technology can inform their practice. Its four chapters cover: developing strategies for improving sustainable and smart buildings; architectural practice and construction technology; creativity and innovation in building automation systems; and the use phase of buildings. Building Automation and Digital Technologies meets a critical need for a sustainable and smart built environment from an architectural perspective, providing an important reference to architects and professionals in related fields by demonstrating the assimilation of the latest information and automation technologies. Puts forward an architectural perspective on the design and construction of smart, sustainable buildings Presents the use of digital technologies for design and construction Bridges the gap between architectural engineering and the use of automation and digital technology Considers the development of automated environmental conditions and new technology

Author : Branko Kolarevic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650786
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Dynamics written by Branko Kolarevic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buildings are increasingly ‘dynamic’: equipped with sensors, actuators and controllers, they ‘self-adjust’ in response to changes in the external and internal environments and patterns of use. Building Dynamics asks how this change manifests itself and what it means for architecture as buildings weather, programs change, envelopes adapt, interiors are reconfigured, systems replaced. Contributors including Chuck Hoberman, Robert Kronenburg, David Leatherbarrow, Kas Oosterhuis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, and many others explore the changes buildings undergo – and the scale and speed at which these occur – examining which changes are necessary, useful, desirable, and possible. The first book to offer a coherent, comprehensive approach to this topic, it draws together arguments previously only available in scattered form. Featuring the latest technologies and design approaches used in contemporary practice, the editors provide numerous examples of cutting-edge work from leading designers and engineering firms working today. An essential text for students taking design studio classes or courses in theory or technology at any level, as well as professionals interested in the latest mechatronic technologies and design techniques.

Author : Julian Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031096959
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability written by Julian Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities. This generates dissociation between the envelope structure and its environment. With the emerging advanced materials, such as chromic-based materials, spectrally selective coatings, and transparent photovoltaic, more dynamic and smarter building skins are now achievable and constructible. This book updates readers on the key areas of smart building skins embodied in the novel advanced materials with unique structures and smart properties that enable multiple functions in energy efficiency, solar harvesting, and environmental greenness. It synergistically integrates the topics and knowledge of material design and experimental studies, theoretical analyses of building energy-saving mechanisms and solar energy utilization, and new design methodologies and processes taking advanced materials into account at different scales - from nano to the macroscale.